Offroad ride at Sandpit this week.

**motorbyclist** · 7th April 2009, 23:55

right, it would appear that i can't make this friday....

next week sometime then... probably wednesday again

**motorbyclist** · 8th April 2009, 00:04

and both swee and jafa have bailed out!

first in first served, kids - an xl125 and yz250

**Real_Wolf** · 8th April 2009, 11:42

Hmm, I'm keen for the yz250, but I'd need to rent some gear.

Also would need a lift.

**Danae** · 8th April 2009, 17:05

Do tell how it went, sorry again that I couldn't go. ): Just got home. I should be able to go next week. : D

**zzzbang** · 8th April 2009, 18:58

Hmmmm. Went well untill about 3.30pm, had fun and such all good. Then i fell and bent my bars

, andrew took a detour to the other side of the park where he found a cliff to ride on. search party went out then he was back at the cars when we got back.

**cave weta** · 8th April 2009, 19:04

Originally Posted by zzzbang

Hmmmm. Went well untill about 3.30pm, had fun and such all good. Then i fell and bent my bars

, andrew took a detour to the other side of the park where he found a cliff to ride on. search party went out then he was back at the cars when we got back.

That sounds like the abridged version ...

I bet the fun and laughter was in the detail?
Did you hit a tree?
did andrew ride on a cliff or off a cliff?
Photos???

**zzzbang** · 8th April 2009, 19:07

no.. not a tree. just a straight road with some bumps and a wheelie gone wrong.. sigh. (damn retard moments.)

il let the other guys fill in the detail :P

**macros87** · 8th April 2009, 22:05

Originally Posted by zzzbang

no.. not a tree. just a straight road with some bumps and a wheelie gone wrong.. sigh. (damn retard moments.)

il let the other guys fill in the detail :P

i must admit, that was a very impressive bail man! when i stopped i thought i was there to help you pick of the pieces of your bike.. and well... pieces of you that might have been lying around as well! for what it looked like, you got off pretty well

what did your dad say about his not so unbendable handle bars ?

**motorbyclist** · 8th April 2009, 23:20

i must say zzzbang is a fast rider, and that the 06 yz450f with steering dampener can clearly corner faster and traverse whoops easier than my 98 yz400f with a leaky fork and shocking rear rim. first few corners i hit at his pace involved a bit of "oh shit'" and a lot of sideways sliding of both wheels

Originally Posted by cave weta

did andrew ride on a cliff or off a cliff?

off a cliff

me and zzzbang planned to go to the superbowl then big dipper - get to the first major junction at the end of the main access track and he's nowhere to be seen due to aforementioned wheelie. wondering where he is i wait for aaages then go on anyway, have a good play in the bowl and then go onto the dipper (noob crash on the way where i may have twisted the front end a little). straight in and out of the dipper with no troubles (only guy to hit it all day). on one of the hills shortly thereafter i'm riding along, thinking 'man i don't wanna fall off that', at which point the bike nearly does. I get her under control and then it just steers 90 degrees straight off the track

but not to worry, a tree stopped the bike after a couple of metres leaving me curled up on my back, upside down in the cutty-grass under the bike

climbed back up and saw that pulling her back up the hill was a bit out of the question considering the slope to be about 5 degrees shy of vertical. no way the quad could do that track nor tow it out and as it just started raining i cbf walking back. So, I have a brief attempt at hauling the bike out, then I put some branches across the track and went for a walk to see if i could ride her out: some grunting later, some bees, a very steep hill decent through bush, a trip through a swamp and a bail on an old fencepost and i am back on the track. get back to the carpark and apparently i've been gone for 40 minutes and everyone is out looking for me

**zzzbang** · 8th April 2009, 23:31

Originally Posted by macros87

i must admit, that was a very impressive bail man! when i stopped i thought i was there to help you pick of the pieces of your bike.. and well... pieces of you that might have been lying around as well! for what it looked like, you got off pretty well

what did your dad say about his not so unbendable handle bars ?

haha, well he was suprised about them being bent. seems we have a spare handlebar (exact same ones) in the shed so quick swap will have it good as new. hmm.. and the rubber marks from my soles that were on the sidecovers cleaned up nicely too

**motorbyclist** · 8th April 2009, 23:51

cleaned?!

psssh, if there's no battle scars or love bites then you're wasting a lot of valuable riding time

**cave weta** · 9th April 2009, 07:57

Originally Posted by motorbyclist

went for a walk to see if i could ride her out: some grunting later, some bees, a very steep hill decent through bush, a trip through a swamp and a bail on an old fencepost and i am back on the track. get back to the carpark and apparently i've been gone for 40 minutes and everyone is out looking for me

That sounds just like us down here on the Coromandel when we go exploring!
some days we use hardly any gas cos we spend so long figuring out how we will get the bikes from point A to point B when we have gullys swamps and gorse in the way!

I heard from a pig hunter just the other day about a massive 80 metre waterfall that is in the hills on a straight line between Katikati and Te Aroha.
I asked a pilot mate and he confirmed that it is there and is huge and seems to have tracks nearby so I got my maps out. Yep its all marked, with tracks too.
So now Im looking for two or three hard bastards to come find it with me!
It looks about 20km from the road